Path analytic investigation of stress-symptom relationships: Physical and psychological symptom models

Theoretical models of the psychosocial stress process emphasize the importance of contextual and mediating process variables in the study of stress-symptom relationships. This study examined a model of stress-symptom relationships that included negative life-change events, ongoing, chronic role strains, acute daily stressors, cognitive appraisals of stress, different methods of coping, and physical and psychological symptoms. Seventy-five adult male inmates of a county correctional facility were studied using a prospective research design to explore the relationships among variables constituting a stress process and between stress variables and symptoms of physical and psychological dysfunction. This investigation also addressed methodological issues of assessment, measurement, and design that have hampered interpretation and limited the explanatory power of the results from previous research on stress-symptom relationships.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Joy, Roy H.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Kanfer, Frederick H.

• Health Sciences, Mental Health
• Education, Educational Psychology
• Psychology, Clinical

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1991 Joy, Roy H.

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9124436
(UMI)AAI9124436

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/19072